When bithers accused Barack Obama of not being born in the US, it's obvious why Obama did not immediately disprove this. It benefited him to a certain extent to have these nutters out there on the airwaves.

Herbalife is being accused of being a pyramid scheme. You cannot argue in any way that it benefits them not to disprove this immediately. This clearly affects its ability to recruit new people.

Couldn't Herbalife make this go away in an instant if they were really legit?

The answers to your question are 1) yes, they could prove it by counting and disclosing retail sales data and 2) they have instead chosen to attack accusers and throw disproportionately huge lobby dollars around.

He advocated for the Civil Rights Act on 1957 and was friends with MLK, he gave you the precursor to the EPA (Council on Environmental Quality), opened China, ended the draft, Nixon hated pointed headed intellectuals, kudos for that and growing up dirt poor and becoming President of the USA-impressive.

John I am surprised you believe in red state/blue state.

Post Script: The first birther was Hillary Clinton, look it up, as First Lady she did have a tendency to snoop through peoples passports-see Craig Livingstone 1996.

Strange enough, if it is Hillary v Jeb, I will vote for the old lady, she will spend the next four years erasing Obama.

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